Bosasa, Gavin Watson & the human cost of corruption
Bosasa bribed its way into contracts. Meet the four-year-old who paid the price.
A new kind of chemistry: Why science is rethinking the humble bed net
Disease-spreading mozzies may be getting wise to our best defences, but science is fighting back.
Meet the doctors: Take a look at this country’s first crop of homegrown physicians
Finally capping its own medics, the country must now retain them and coax them into rural areas.
Black? A woman? Read why you’re more likely to be a victim of online...
Are social media algorithms designed to prey the mental health of women and people of colour?
Afraid of death? Take comfort that you’ll live on in varied and surprising ways
Most of us would rather not know what happens to our bodies after death. But that breakdown gives birth to new life in unexpected ways.
Caesarean vs vaginal birth: A mother’s choice, not her doctor’s
C-sections may result in fewer lawsuits, but they are not always the best option.
Could this finally solve the Eastern Cape’s cancer mystery?
The substances that cause cancer leave their fingerprints behind. Now, the world may be closer than ever to unravelling the clues hidden in our DNA.
These hospitals have become a home away from home in the Maasai’s fight against...
When TB strikes, the fight to live can come at the cost of a way of life for the country's nomads. This could help ease the pain.
This country figured out how to stop teen substance abuse, so why has no...
Find out which nordic nation radically cut teenage smoking, drinking and drug use and how they did it.
From stranded to solitude: How the short-lived relief of repatriation could be people’s tipping...
As South Africa enters level two of its national lockdown, international travel remains restricted. One of the few exceptions are repatriation flights, which require a mandatory quarantine period. But the toll of mounting stress and isolation may have long-term consequences on people’s mental health.
Gasping for breath: Pneumonia’s deadly toll
A disease that claims the lives of two children under five a minute worldwide has hit drought-stricken Kenya hard, its spread driven by malnutrition.
Rural hospitals in terminal crisis
Accessing healthcare in this rural town has never been easy. Shortages of staff as well as medical equipment makes it difficult for...
Bones of gold: ‘You never know when someone will kidnap you’
Dangerous myths persist about people living with albinism, but a community in Malawi has had enough.
‘I saw the world through the blurry lens of an oxygen tent’
With the severe effects of the habit on the unborn child now widely known, why do pregnant mothers refuse to give up?
‘Most complex health crisis in history’: Congo struggles to contain Ebola
Political, security and cultural complications – not least a refusal to believe that Ebola exists – have thwarted efforts to overcome...
‘I told them I had a miscarriage. But the nurses knew what had really...
Go inside the international network of women willing to break the law to give people access to termination of pregnancy services.